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All Australian

i'd have Khawaja in as opener for Harris, and Marsh in to help the bowlers with the short turn around at the expense of Wade. I don't see much point in dropping Warner at this late stage. may as well give him another chance to turn it around.

Club Legend

So M.Marsh replaces T.Head in the 12 named , England have dropped Roy and Overton for Woakes and Curran .Seems like Stokes will bat only , guess we will find out at match time who each 12 man will be .

I am hoping its Cummins that gets a rest , only because he has had a heavy workload this series . I suspect with Marsh playing they can use Cummins in short bursts , who looked physically stuffed towards the end of the last test .

Norm Smith Medallist

I'm a bit surprised to see Head gone - he has been mediocre but far from the worst. And they are sticking with Warner and Harris as openers. I'll be pretty mad if we're 10/2 again. Smith can't do it EVERY time forever.

Brownlow Medallist

I'm a bit surprised to see Head gone - he has been mediocre but far from the worst. And they are sticking with Warner and Harris as openers. I'll be pretty mad if we're 10/2 again. Smith can't do it EVERY time forever.

All Australian

I'm a bit surprised to see Head gone - he has been mediocre but far from the worst. And they are sticking with Warner and Harris as openers. I'll be pretty mad if we're 10/2 again. Smith can't do it EVERY time forever.

Brownlow Medallist

i'd have Khawaja in as opener for Harris, and Marsh in to help the bowlers with the short turn around at the expense of Wade. I don't see much point in dropping Warner at this late stage. may as well give him another chance to turn it around.

Turn it around into what exactly? His last away hundred(s) were two in 2017 against Bangladesh. Has made four other away tons all in 2014, all in 2014 v South Africa (similar batting-wise to Australia) and Pakistan (dead UAE wickets). Averages 35.17 outside of Australia and 27.60 in England. Pretty damning for a bloke who's played 78 tests to have never made an away Ashes/Border-Gavaskar ton.

All Australian

Turn it around into what exactly? His last away hundred(s) were two in 2017 against Bangladesh. Has made four other away tons all in 2014, all in 2014 v South Africa (similar batting-wise to Australia) and Pakistan (dead UAE wickets). Averages 35.17 outside of Australia and 27.60 in England. Pretty damning for a bloke who's played 78 tests to have never made an away Ashes/Border-Gavaskar ton.

runs. he makes plenty at home and summers coming quick.
don't get me wrong, I thought they should have dropped him earlier in the series when he looked way off, but now I just don't see much point. may as well give him another chance with 1 test to go and since we're in an unlosable position. someone still has to push him out and so far no one has. another failure here and the spots up for grabs though as far as i'm concerned.

Brownlow Medallist

Get a load of those stats. Impressive stuff from the batsmen. The difference between the two sides has been that our freak has been freakier than their freak. You'd think it was a minefield rather than pitches with a bit of seam movement.

Edit: Crivens, look how terrible our three opening options have been. Khawaja not much better.

Brownlow Medallist

Get a load of those stats. Impressive stuff from the batsmen. The difference between the two sides has been that our freak has been freakier than their freak. You'd think it was a minefield rather than pitches with a bit of seam movement.

Edit: Crivens, look how terrible our three opening options have been. Khawaja not much better.

Club Legend

Get a load of those stats. Impressive stuff from the batsmen. The difference between the two sides has been that our freak has been freakier than their freak. You'd think it was a minefield rather than pitches with a bit of seam movement.

Edit: Crivens, look how terrible our three opening options have been. Khawaja not much better.

Nope, totally agree. Guessing this is also about "sending a message" or something along those lines to Head to try to get him to lift his game a bit. I think he's a hack, but he's unfortunately a bit more prolific than the other hacks we have available. Not much point in spearing Wade as a lesson - he's a long way past learning.

We could do worse than throw Siddle in at 6. Probably a better all-rounder than Mitch Marsh.

Brownlow Medallist

Poor selection, IMO. People coming in for one test, then straight out again. Meanwhile guys are getting dropped when there are people performing worse in the side. Giving Starc one Test is rubbish... come in, take a bunch of poles or lose your spot again. Travis, you need to do better with the bat, just pay no mind to David and Matthew. They're special cases.

Club Legend

1) Winning the toss and bowling on a known road
2) Peter Siddle bowling s**t (may as well have kept Starc, at least he bowls the odd Jaffa)
3) Mitchell Marsh hooping it. Expect him to play the next 50 tests now.